Archives for January 2016

This is the only time that 'no' means 'yes'. I'll tell you why but first, did you know, asking someone for a favour can make them like you more? Well, in a kind of variation of that, if they turn you …

For some reason, Benjamin Franklin is known for doing, like, everything first. This is no exception. This little brain quirk is known as the 'Ben Franklin effect' and it refers to the fact that if you …

Catharsis is a term that originated in Greece. In Greek, the word meant something like 'to purge'. In his book, Poetics, Aristotle writes the phrase 'cathartic tragedy'. It's thought here, that he was …